Chronic graft-versus-host-disease-like dermopathy in a child with CD4+ cell microchimerism

Dermatology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 68-71

  Kowalzick, Lutz ^a   Artlett, Carolm ^c   Thoss, Karin ^a   Baum, Hans Peter ^b   Ziegler, Heidrun ^a   Mischke, Daniel ^a   Blum, Roland ^a   Pönnighaus, Jörg Martin ^a   Quietzsch, Jürgen ^a  

^a Childrens Hospital   (Germany)

^b Institute for Pathology   (Germany)

^c THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graft versus host disease; Juvenile dermatomyositis; Microchimerism; Scleroderma; UVA1 phototherapy

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; CD4 ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTEROID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DISEASE COURSE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LEUKOCYTE; LICHENOID; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MICROCHIMERISM; MUSCLE BIOPSY; MYOSITIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN FIBROSIS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CHILD; CHIMERISM; DERMATOMYOSITIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 10644246592     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000081489     Document Type: Article

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